Photograph

I wrote this piece when I was at a museum and saw a whole exhibit of pictures of different people. It got me thinking about who each of these people and their stories....

Just snapshots of a life. A moment suspended in time. A collection of people with feelings and faces, with stories to be told. Two pictures never the same...a story and legacy all on its own. Of shadows and highlights...of exposure and of features...of rain or sun...of blur or of focus...of the human race...of Earth. Two will never be the same, intersecting, perhaps but never overlapping. A snippet of a journey already so well-traveled and an unpaved road lying ahead. Caught in motion, yet stilled for eternity. A creation of time and life...of history and the future...of what will come and of what has come to pass...of Earth and of the universe.

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